Nuno Borges and Evgeny Karlovskiy will square off in the quarter of the Manama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 3:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nuno Borges who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nuno Borges is the pick to win this match.
Nuno Borges -> 1.41
Evgeny Karlovskiy -> 2.91
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Evgeny Karlovskiy
There is no head to head record between Nuno Borges and Evgeny Karlovskiy since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Nuno Borges
Ranked no. 262, Borges got to the quarter after defeating Filip Cristian Jianu 6-3 7-66 and Cem Ilkel 6-3 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Borges had a good straight sets win against Ilkel (6-3 6-1). During the match, Borges scored 56 points vs Ilkel’s 33. The Portuguese was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Borges scored 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Nuno Borges was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nuno broke Ilkel 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Portuguese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Borges has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 75% of his matches (144-49). 6-3 on hard in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Borges has an aggregate84-22 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
Borges’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,the Oeiras 2 Challenger and M15 Majadahonda.
Nuno has an overall 40-18 win-loss record in 2021, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Manama Challenger
Nuno has never competed in this tournament before.
Evgeny Karlovskiy
Ranked no. 302, Evgeny reached the quarter after defeating Mirza Basic 6-2 6-3 and Johannes Haerteis 6-3 6-1.
In the 2nd round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Haerteis (6-3 6-1). During the match Karlovskiy scored 57 points vs Haerteis’s 30. The Russian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Karlovskiy managed to score 5 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Evgeny Karlovskiy was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (22/27) of his 1st serve and 83% (10/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Evgeny broke Haerteis 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 60% of the points he played.
The Russian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Sultan.
The Russian has an aggregate 24-25 win-loss record in 2021, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Borges | Karlovskiy |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 38 | 33 |
| Pts | 137-102 | 128-87 |
| Total Points | 239 | 215 |
| Winners | 57 | 61 |
| %Winners | 42% | 48% |
Both Borges and Karlovskiy played 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Borges and Karlovskiy have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Borges played 5 games more than Karlovskiy. The Portuguese scored 57 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian struck 61 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Borges | Karlovskiy |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 12 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 4.5 |
| 1st in | 68/120 | 81/116 |
| %1st in | 57% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 57/68 | 61/81 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 28/52 | 21/35 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 60% |
Borges managed to score 12 aces (6 per match). Karlovskiy struck 9 aces (4.5 per match). Borges won 84% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Karlovskiy won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Borges | Karlovskiy |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 7 |
| Converted | 7/17 | 7/17 |
| % Converted | 41% | 41% |
| Conceded | 10 | 8 |
| Saved | 8 | 8 |
| % Saved | 80% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Nuno broke his opponents 7 times with a 41% conversion rate. Borges lost his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Karlovskiy broke his opponents 7 times with a 41% conversion rate. Evgeny was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 8 break points.
| Borges | ||||
| R1 Cristian |
R2 Ilkel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-66 | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 16 | 38 | |
| pts | 81-69 | 56-33 | 137-102 | |
| Total points | 150 | 89 | 239 | |
| Winners | 35 | 22 | 57 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 39% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 4 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 42/78 | 26/42 | 68/120 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 62% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 35/42 | 22/26 | 57/68 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 85% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/36 | 10/16 | 28/52 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 63% | 54% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| Converted | 2/8 | 5/9 | 7/17 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 56% | 41% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 3 | 10 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 2/3 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 67% | 77% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Karlovskiy | ||||
| R1 Basic |
R2 Haerteis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 16 | 33 | |
| pts | 71-57 | 57-30 | 128-87 | |
| Total points | 128 | 87 | 215 | |
| Winners | 39 | 22 | 61 | |
| %Winners | 55% | 39% | 48% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 54/77 | 27/39 | 81/116 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 69% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 39/54 | 22/27 | 61/81 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 81% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/23 | 10/12 | 21/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 83% | 60% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 4/9 | 7/17 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 44% | 41% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 0 | 8 | |
| Saved | 8/8 | 0/0 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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